Jason Kottke decides to start a meme and Cory Doctorow can’t help but jump on the bandwagon about the WhiteHouse.gov robots.txt file which went from 2,400 lines to 2. Of course there must be some nefarious purpose there or lesson about the closed nature of the Bush administration vs. the new open Obama administration. Kottke…
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TechCrunch writes about the increasingly small window companies have to make an impression with new product launches, citing the lousy launch of Google-wannabe Cuil. The thing that boggles my mind about Cuil is still the three-column search results page. WTF? That just makes my eyes bleed and has me running back to Google to lay…
Google may not yet be evil, but it is certainly moving further and further down toward that end of the continuum with its extremely poor privacy practices in combination with the almost absurd amount of user data it appears to be logging and storing. With that in mind, I suspect more services like Scroogle will…
Most people don’t seem to be aware of all of the different operators and other techniques that Google accepts that can be used to narrow down searches to help find just the results you’re looking for. Mapelli’s Ultimate Google Search Guide is a fairly thorough, short outline of all of the different tricks and techniques…
In another lifetime — i.e. a few years ago — I used to run a small search engine. Rather than try to index every possible site in the world, this search engine used some pretty basic technology to index the then-handful of web sites on the Internet opposed to the animal rights agenda. It was…
Dave Winer is apparently impressed by Daniel Brandt’s anti-Google rantings. But as this Salon.Com article documents, Brandt is a nutty conspiracy theorist (just go a few links deep at his NameBase.Org who is pissed off because *his* page about Donald Rumsfeld, and a whole host of other people, doesn’t show up very high in Google…